Please join us in urging the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change to ensure that the safety of Indigenous women and girls is not out of sight and out of mind in the decision-making process surrounding resource development in Canada.

A groundswell is building in Africa. Women from the small farms dotted across the continent are on the move. And this October, these rural women will come together at Mount Kilimanjaro to demand their land rights.

Globally, one in three women experience sexual or physical violence in her lifetime. Women and girls in Ghana, Swaziland, Tanzania and Togo are more likely to experience gender-based violence than their counterparts in North America and Europe.

Our new Prime Minister Theresa May has officially taken office and everyoneâEUR(TM)s talking up her feminist credentials. But sheâEUR(TM)s helped to cover up one of the most shocking abuses of women of our time.

Canadian Professor Homa Hoodfar, a respected academic scholar and researcher on women and the family in the Middle East and the Muslim World, is being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. The government of Canada must urgently intervene to secure her i